The Los Angeles Greek Film Festival kicked off with a star studded red carpet gala on June 25th, at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood. Actors, directors and producers of Greek descent gathered at the festival which promotes Greek cinema and culture in the capital of the entertainment industry.

Oliver Stone,Gustavo Santaolalla, Diablo Cody, Jean-Pierre, Luc Dardenne,Takeshi Kitano, Terence Davies, Richard Jobson, Guillermo Navarro and Emir Kusturica are only a few of the big names that will attend the festival.

The Los Angeles Greek Film Festival (LAGFF) kicks off June 25th at the Egyptian Theater with the screening of a newly restored print of "Zorba" and will end June 29th with the screening of "Little Greek Godfather," based on an autobiographical short story by Nicholas Papandreou.

You can find Greeks in the most awkward positions under very uncommon circumstances all around Hollywood, but to discover that the president of the Indian Film Festival is one of them is really a surprise.

After the tragic and extensive disasters that Greece suffered this past summer, the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival 2008 organizers decided to invite filmmakers to submit their films for a special program titled “Wildfires: Greece, Summer 2007”.